Newbie needs colour replacement advice

I'm still feeling my way along with PS and would appreciate some help with what is probably a very straightforward issue: I'm planning to do some giclee prints involving scans of original watercolour paintings of botanical subjects. Because of the nature of the subject, 90% of the content of the image is actually the original art paper with nothing on it. The 'nothing' still has a colour of course (creamy off-white), and when I print on to a similarly-coloured fine art inkjet paper I get a darker background than the original because I'm effectively finishing up with two lots of background. Is there a way I can make the background a lighter shade that doesn't involve use of one of the selection tools? A link to an appropriate tutorial would be much appreciated.

Go to the Adjustments panel (Window->Adjustments if it's not on screen) and select either Levels or Curves (top row, the two middle icons), select the White Point Eyedropper and click with it on the paper to turn it white.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7666a.html

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> this doesn't happen?
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